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About the Course

The purpose of this course is to equip you with the knowledge required to comprehend the financial statements of a company and understand the various transactions that take place in the stock market so that you can replicate the strategies discovered by the extant academic literature. The first part of the course provides a brief introduction to financial statements and various common filings of firms. You will learn how to obtain information regarding a company's performance from them and use the information to build trading strategies. Next, you are taught basic asset pricing theories so that you will be able to calculate the expected returns of a stock or a portfolio. Finally, you will be introduced to the actual functioning of asset markets, type of players in the market, different types of orders and the efficient ways and opportune time to execute them, trading costs and ways of minimizing them, the concept of liquidity .etc. This knowledge is required to develop efficient algorithm to execute various trading strategies....

Top reviews

VB

Aug 2, 2020

Good for beginner but would recommend to have a bit knowledge about trading as it will be easy to grasp, Also WEEK 3 will be very challenging as its just MATH

JR

Oct 30, 2020

On the three it got i little bit complicated because it was a lack of information about a spetific topic (The CAPM) But the rest was really great. Thanks

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By Parag S

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Jul 25, 2019

Concise and accurate

By Ankit S

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Nov 23, 2016

important -- do take

By ramesh c

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Jul 21, 2023

excellent teaching

By Rajsee S

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Jun 27, 2025

Very informative

By Amarjeet A

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Feb 4, 2021

it's no cakewalk

By Dr. R

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Aug 8, 2019

Excellent course

By Lokesh C

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May 25, 2021

valuable course

By Oussema G

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Aug 19, 2019

Clear and brief

By Nikhil B

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Dec 15, 2022

Perfect Course

By Deleted A

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May 29, 2019

Très bon cours

By JINITHA R

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Oct 7, 2020

knowledgeable

By FREDDY G C

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Sep 15, 2023

es un Reto ¡

By Dmitry P

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Dec 28, 2020

Cool course!

By Vanshika S

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Jul 30, 2020

Very Helpful

By M.Sai V

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Apr 21, 2020

very helpful

By tapas g

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Feb 2, 2025

insightful

By Mudita B

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Aug 12, 2018

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By ALI H

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Jul 25, 2022

Great

By Misael C

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Jan 13, 2018

great

By Amit R

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Apr 7, 2024

Good

By Padmakar S D

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Aug 8, 2020

good

By Amal

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May 13, 2020

good

By Rachit N

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Dec 19, 2018

cool

By ROHIT P

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May 25, 2020

NIL

By Retak J

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Sep 26, 2023

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